Mediagazer: As BBC probed Facebook's failure to remove 82 of 100 sexualized images of children it had flagged, Facebook reported BBC to UK's police and canceled interview (Angus Crawford/BBC)

4:40 PM ET, March 7, 2017

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Joe Uchill / The Hill:

Wikileaks releases large cache of alleged CIA classified documents, detailing hacking tools for iPhones and Android phones, Samsung smart TVs, and more — WikiLeaks on Tuesday published a massive trove of documents purportedly pertaining to the CIA's hacking programs …

Ewen MacAskill / The Guardian:

According to WikiLeaks docs, CIA and MI5/BTSS developed method for spying via Samsung F8000 TVs — The 8,761 documents published by WikiLeaks focus mainly on techniques for hacking and surveillance — The US intelligence agencies are facing fresh embarrassment after WikiLeaks published …

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Angus Crawford / BBC:

As BBC probed Facebook's failure to remove 82 of 100 sexualized images of children it had flagged, Facebook reported BBC to UK's police and canceled interview — Facebook has been criticised for its handling of reports about sexualised images of children on its platform.

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

Forbes begins rolling out new mobile site, which it says loads in 0.8 seconds, introduces new story format called Cards, modelled after Snapchat Stories — PWAs are backed by Google and promise one thing above all else: speed. — With its intersitial quotes and lengthy load times …

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Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:

Speaking at the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet & Telecom Conference, CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves praises Trump for his pro-business deregulatory policies — “Although we're not the enemy of the people, we welcome the deregulation there," the network's chief executive said of Washington.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / WWD:

Women's news sites like Bustle and The Cut are going on strike for IWD protest on Weds; Jezebel will be run by male staff members for the day — “A Day Without A Woman” will be a day without content for some outlets. — Women's solidarity march, Washington DC, USA - 21 Jan 2017

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Oriana Schwindt / Variety:

BBC Worldwide and ITV's joint streaming service, BritBox, launches in the US for $7/month, available on web, AppleTV, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices — BritBox, the streaming child of British media giants BBC Worldwide and ITV, has officially launched stateside.

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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:

Filing: pay dropped 13% YoY for New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., to $5.1M; CEO Mark Thompson's pay dropped 43% YoY following 2015 retention bonus — NYT editor: Trump's attacks are “failing” — The New York Times' leadership took significant pay cuts last year …

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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Mother Jones, which began a reader support campaign after the prison exposé, has seen 164% increase in monthly sustaining donors from Jan. 2016-Jan. 2017 — On Friday, Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer racked up yet another award for his 35,000-word opus that chronicled his four months as an undercover prison guard.

Discussion: @monikabauerlein, @shane_bauer, @benmullin and San Francisco Chronicle

Ben Sullivan / Motherboard:

Bellingcat, the open source investigations site, launches a Kickstarter campaign to fund expansion of training and archiving — When open source investigation network Bellingcat launched off the back of a Kickstarter campaign in 2014, founder Eliot Higgins probably never imagined his work …

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CNN:

CNN launches immersive journalism and virtual reality unit, CNNVR, which will cover major news events and produce VR livestreams — CNN announced today the official launch of CNNVR - a new immersive journalism unit and virtual reality platform within CNN Digital.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

How the NYT, WaPo, and Politico have adapted to the exhausting process of covering Trump, whose unpredictable weekend tweets have upended the news cycle — President Trump has attempted to undercut the U.S. media in a number of ways — by calling them the “enemy”; by denying coverage credentials …

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

iflix, a streaming service targeting emerging markets, raises $90M from Liberty Global, Sky, others; source: the company recently let 50 employees go — iflix, a Netflix-like service that covers Southeast Asia and other emerging markets, has closed $90 million in new funding to expand its service into new countries.

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James Warren / Poynter:

Sources: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is refusing to allow pool reporters to travel with him on an upcoming government trip to Asia — As CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson was accustomed to going where he wanted, when he wanted, with whomever he wanted.

Discussion: @timafranklin and @simonhernandez

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Radio Times editor Ben Preston joining Sunday Times as executive editor — Radio Times editor Ben Preston is leaving the title after eight years to join The Sunday Times as executive editor. — Preston previously worked for sister title, The Times, for 15 years rising to the role of deputy editor.

Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:

Interview with Teen Vogue columnist Lauren Duca on why the magazine's political coverage reaches beyond its target demographic — Over the last few months, Teen Vogue's clear-eyed, accessible coverage of the Trump administration has caught the collective attention of the internet.

Discussion: bookforum.com and @abbymnorman